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ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Darryl Kile knew exactly what he needed to do
against the Arizona Diamondbacks. He had done it just the week
before.
One start after a heartbreaking loss to Arizona, Kile got the
run support he needed to earn his first win this month as the St.
Louis Cardinals beat the Diamondbacks 8-4 Wednesday night.
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"If you throw a game where you throw the ball well, you can
pick up on some things they are trying to do against you," Kile
said. "Hopefully, you'll be able to repeat the things you did
well."
Kile had done well last week, when he faced the minimum number
of batters through five innings in a 3-2 loss. Kile held the
Diamondbacks to 10 hits and one run -- a homer -- in that game,
earning a no-decision when Arizona rallied in the ninth.
Until the eighth inning Wednesday, Kile's performance was a near
repeat of that outing. He ended up allowing 10 hits, striking out
four and walking two in eight-plus innings.
"This team has a lot of character," Kile said about bouncing
back to beat the Diamondbacks at home. "Every time it looks like
we've got our backs up against the wall, we come out fighting. To
win two games against a team like that, it's good for us."
At 12-6, Kile joins the Diamondbacks' Randy Johnson (15-3) and
Atlanta's Tom Glavine (12-5) and Greg Maddux (12-4) as the fourth
12-game winner in the National League.
"We shouldn't feel singled out," Arizona manager Buck
Showalter said. "It looks like he and St. Louis are a perfect fit."
Before the game, Arizona acquired right-hander Curt Schilling
from the Philadelphia Phillies for first baseman-outfielder Travis
Lee and pitchers Omar Daal, Vicente Padilla and Nelson Figueroa.
Thomas Howard hit a three-run homer, his sixth, in the fifth to
give Kile a comfortable 8-1 lead.
"We've got to go ahead and finish off the sweep," said Howard,
who went 2-for-4 with four RBI. "We have to pick up as many games
as we can."
Luis Gonzalez's 19th homer gave Arizona a 1-0 lead in the first.
St. Louis, without Mark McGwire for the foreseeable future, took
an early lead, stinging Arizona starter Armando Reynoso for three
straight hits to open the game. Fernando Vina, Edgar Renteria and
Jim Edmonds all scored to give St. Louis a 3-1 lead.
The Cardinals added two in the third to go up 5-1, with Renteria
scoring on Fernando Tatis' sacrifice fly to center and Edmonds
coming home on Howard's RBI single.
Edmonds finished 3-for-4 with two runs, an RBI and a walk.
Kile was ahead 8-1 after seven innings, but pinch-hitter Greg
Colbrunn singled leading off the eighth, and the Cardinals missed a
double play when Kile misplayed Tony Womack's grounder. Colbrunn
scored on Gonzalez's RBI single, and Gonzalez and Womack came home
on Matt Williams' double to make it 8-4.
Heathcliff Slocumb got the final three outs.
"I was just hoping to throw strikes and not let them get back
in the game because I was wild," Kile said. "Slo came in and did a
great job. I can't say enough about how our defense played. They
doubled everything up the middle and gobbled everything up and came
away with some big hits."
Reynoso (7-7) allowed eight runs and 10 hits in five innings,
taking his first loss in more than a month. He had won his last
three decisions over a five-start span, including a 4-3 win against
the Cardinals last week.
"It was just a bad all-around night for me," Reynoso said. "I
had trouble with location."
It is the first time in two seasons that Diamondbacks starters
have lost four straight games.
Game notes
So far this season, 20 St. Louis players have hit at least
one home run. The record is 24, set by the 1963 Cleveland Indians.
... Cardinals OF Eric Davis was out sick for a second straight
game. He has a sore throat and a high temperature, manager Tony La
Russa said. ... Colbrunn turned 31 Wednesday. ... With 496 homers,
Arizona is four away from 500 in franchise history.
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